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SHELDRAKE,

Briana NEW YORK, ASSIGXOR TO THE PLfiSiVE CGMPQUNU.

SPECIFXGAZQIGN forming part of Letters Patent No 289,758, dated December 4, 1883.

.kpplirutien liird Jul) '23, 13:3

Be it known that i, ii. UH'LJi-l. o! Loch :Sheldruh ullivnn county, Htliiuk of A ew York. and n i, 20:) of the i red States of m :ric:i, how: inrez'iied nn .iil'il'lltlftfli Explosive tiempmuul,oi which the following is u, i'uli. hie-(u; nud exuet soc-file; .ion.

My inventioi'i (")ihLsiS in un explosive compound onus-e chiefly in hinstirq, compi'medof usol Ed. ingredient such as Chlorate oi'nornsh and n liquid inermlient consisting of u mixture of niiio-henzoh: end "'deudwjiil,- Sill)- fstuniiuiiy in the proportions and us nnd for ihe puri osi x hereinafter set forth.

Theo Ci oi mj' present in \".:!1ii )li isto pro- ;ide u eompound ot' thi:-;.-i:i1:rucier ihe explosive power ien hot d'llifiil lll;1;\i)i 'rndod or l led. us do ed, and also to provided (:onum nd ifiliijil in he more wonoinieuily produit an; oneiu which n fluid nitrn eon! pound ch as nitro-benzoie nloiu;--eonstitun-s the j -edinnt,

l-oreconomi u Minno -4 the des rnhle proportion l whit-h the i '(,--hen;coio and tho dead-oil an ni "-,d io constitute the liqui: ingredient are nhc-ut cuuul puris of ouch; and the tilCfiitliQdi noporz-ions in which the solid ingredient of (tillUltLiQ of potash and ihethusconstituted liquid ingredient are united to form. the explosive are about four or fire puris of the solid one ofthe Hi uid, ui'iuthis way explosive of a power or strength suhsmntizilly equal to one in. which nitro-benzole alone is ih" liquid ingredient in formed in; u reduced e. The exact the-on ienl proportions need hon ver, be strictly adhered to, inusnuu-h d preponderance oi" the Tilil (X0 spwinunm) beuzole in the mixture constituting theliquid ingredient ill nugment the power or strength of the exploxive, and u diminution of the niirodwnzole in said mixture will decrease such qmwer or strength; and in the former (#2150 it will he i'ound desirnhle to somewhat decrease the proportion 01' the chlorate oi potash, and in the latter (use to somewhat; increase the same in tlietinul compound, and the compound be still, on etiertive cxplamire.

jlerehlomte or pcrmun unute of potash may he em 'iloyml. on the soiid ingredient, it being; understood t'lnu the solid ingredient is eniiloyed in :1 crushed or powdered state, and a mixture of other fluid nitro compounds than lllil'O-lNfllZUit: and other tree fluid and non- \otntile ilyiil'OCilliHjllh than dend-oil may be employed to i'onslitllie the liquid ingredient.

The described ingredients being incapable of explosion by percussion, they can be safely ihnndli-d and trnusportod, and they can be uniled hy the consumer :it the time and plac of their desired use by simply permitting the soiid to nhnorh iho liquid, or by mixing them in measured propel-time; in :1 suitable v 1'. ion, und desireto secure 1) Letters iniieni, is-

The here]n-di-srrilw-d errplosire eom 'iotuld,

(.(illlllU-h'iti o1 a solid ingredient sueh us chlornte of punish mud in liquid ingredient colisisiing ot' :1mixtuiooinitrolyenxoleand deud oil, suhnlnntially in the proportions and us and for the PKHIKNIH set forth.

hiLAS It. DIVINE.

(ii nw's'es 5.. G, Veiznxnn, "L S Enron. 

